A Ballad of Love and Glory Grande Reyna
A Long Petal of the Sea meets Cold Mountain in this sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love,…
Specifikacia A Ballad of Love and Glory Grande Reyna
A Long Petal of the Sea meets Cold Mountain in this sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War--from the author of the "timely and riveting" (People) Across a Hundred Mountains and The Distance Between Us.The life of Ximena, a gifted Mexican healer, is tragically upended in the spring of 1846 when the United States Army marches south to the Ro Grande, provoking an unjust war with Mxico. After her husband is killed by Texas Rangers, Ximena leaves her beloved ranch to serve her country's cause, traveling as an army nurse from battlefield to battlefield.Meanwhile, John Riley, an Irish immigrant in the U.S. Army, has grown disillusioned by the brutal treatment of his fellow Irishmen